The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.
AGNES REPPLIERit is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.
More Agnes Repplier Quotes
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The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.
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Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world’s mirth.
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The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.
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fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge … falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.
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A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.
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